New species report of family of Entomobryidae (Collembola) for Iranian fauna

Subject Areas : Plant Protection

Asghar Falahati Hosseinabad ¹ , Mohammad Hassan Sarailoo ² , Seyyed Ali Jafari ³ , Sedigheh Alizadeh ⁴

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Received: 2011-06-09 Accepted : 2011-11-10 Published : 2012-02-20

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Family of Entomobryidae belongs to order of Collembola (springtails). The members of this family distinguish from other family by slender body, long hairs body, scales one body and lengthier fourth abdomen segment than third one. For study this family in during 2011- 2012, the sampling of  soil and leaf composts, from different areas of Choram (kohgiloyeh and Boyer Ahmad province) and Collembola were extracted by heat in Berlise funnel. Microscopic slide were provided by Hoyer medium. In sum, five species from three different genus were collected and described which comprised one species belong to Willowsia genus, two species belong to Entomobrya genus, two species belong to Lepidocyrtus genus. The species are new for Iran fauna. 

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